Heinrich Oswald von Saß

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Heinrich Oswald Baron von Sass , also of Sass (born 15 . Jul / 27. May  1856 greg. In Kuressaare ( Saaremaa ), Governorate of Livonia , Russian Empire ; † 1. jul. / 14. May  1913 greg. Ibid), was a German-Baltic landscape , marine , portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf and Munich schools .

Life

Von Saß was a scion of the German-Baltic noble family von Saß and the son of District Administrator Karl Georg Baron von Saß (1817–1902) zu Sandel auf Ösel and his wife Alexandra “Nanny”, née Pilar von Pilchau (1823–1910), a daughter of Reinhold Friedrich Pilar von Pilchau (1781–1860). After taking art lessons with Otto von Moeller, he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1876 to 1877 . There were Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein his teachers. Because of a severe joint problem, he had to break off his studies in Düsseldorf. In 1878 he began again to study painting. On October 10, 1878, he enrolled in the class of antiques at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Alois Gabl and Otto Seitz were his teachers at the Munich Academy . From 1884 to 1887 he was a master student of Alexander von Liezen-Mayer . After a time in Kharkiv he lived in Riga , where he worked as a teacher at the Jung-Stilling School of Painting and Drawing from 1894 to 1898. On October 24, 1894, he married Karoline "Lilly" Adele Thekla, born in Arensburg, from zur Mühlen (1872–1927), the daughter of District Administrator Hermann Ludwig von zur Mühlen (1835–1910). The couple, which had four children - one son was the painter and draftsman Joachim von Sass (1902–1990) - later moved to his birthplace in Arensburg, where he died in 1913.

Works

  • Väljasõit (departure) , 1887, Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum
  • Ussenuvalve (Wake) , 1890, Riga, Art Museum
  • Eesti kalurituba (Estonian farmhouse parlor) , 1891, Riga, Art Museum
  • Merevaade (Sea View) , 1892, Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum
  • Kristuse taevaminek (Ascension Day) , sketch, 1898, Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum
  • Jeesuse taevaminek (Ascension) , 1903, Jõhvi (Jewen), church
  • Päikese loojenemine (sunset) , study, Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum
  • Mets (forest) , study, Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum
  • Laevad Tallinna reidil (Ships Before Tallinn) , Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum
  • Maastik karjaga (Landscape with Cattle) , Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum
  • Finnish Landscape , Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Neue Pinakothek

literature

  • Wilhelm Neumann (ed.): Baltic painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Biographical sketches with the portraits of the artists and reproductions based on their works . Graphic arts institutions by Alexander Grosset, Riga 1902, pp. 135/136.
  • Wilhelm Neumann (ed.): Lexicon of Baltic artists . Jonk & Poliewsky, Riga 1908.
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Volume V. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921.
  • Thieme-Becker , Volume XXIX (1935), p. 481.
  • Wilhelm Lenz (Ed.): German Baltic Biographical Lexicon 1710–1960 . Commissioned by the Baltic Historical Commission, started by Olaf Welding and with the collaboration of Erik Amburger and Georg von Krusenstjern, Cologne / Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-412-42670-9 .
  • Anne Löugas: Sass, Oswald Heinrich Baron von . In: Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Volume 3. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 179, illustration: "Meeresansicht", 1892.
  • Aija Brasliņa, Ksenija Rudzīte: Dabas spēks. Reālisms un Diseldorfas skolas glezniecība. Igaunijas Mākslas muzejs KUMU ( website ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439
  2. ↑ 03572 Oswald von Sass , entry in register book 2 (1841–1884) of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
personal data
SURNAME Sat, Heinrich Oswald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sass, Heinrich Oswald von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Arensburg , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1913
Place of death Arensburg , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire